Octavian Banica — Senior Systems Engineer
Systems that have to be fast,and are not allowed to be wrong.
For 35 years I've worked at the point where software meets hard constraints: custom wireless hardware, DSP telephony, and, for the last decade, Bloomberg's fixed-income bondanalytics system. The job is rarely just "make it faster." It's making sure faster doesn't mean less correct.
Currently: building Logic Soft Design, my own software consulting practice, and open to conversations about the next senior systems role. More on the Now page →
Selected work
All stories →Redesigning Bloomberg's fixed-income benchmark calculation system
A from-scratch redesign of the engine that calculates the fixed-income benchmarks across Bloomberg's ecosystem, the project I'm proudest of, and one I designed end to end.
85% reduction in processing latency
Bloomberg · 2015 – 2026Breaking up the Yield & Spread monolith
Decomposing Bloomberg's global Yield & Spread analytics system into distributed microservices so it could analyze whole portfolios, not just single securities.
25% reduction in latency
Redline Communications · 2003 – 2010Building the tools before you can build the system
High-throughput fixed-wireless broadband on custom Point-to-Multipoint processors
up to 200 Mbps throughput
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